Ralf Altrieth - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic on strong paper, ivory tone
75 x 105 cm

Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by Ralf Altrieth

The presentation images with a passe-partout are suggestions only.

DESCRIPTION:

A free, sensitive and deeply alive presence.

This original work on paper by Ralf Altrieth unfolds an instinctive universe where fragmented figures, floating gazes and animal shapes seem to appear and then disappear in the material. Between softness and graphic tension, the composition retains something immediate, which holds the eye for a long time without ever fully grasping it.

The direct and spontaneous lines converse with quieter flat areas, creating a work that is both expressive and poetic. The colors, deliberately restrained and then suddenly pierced by more vivid accents, give the paper a very particular vibration, subtle yet intensely present in an interior space.

The work possesses that rare quality of pieces that you do not look at only for their subject, but for the atmosphere they establish. Framed with a wide passe-partout, it takes on an almost architectural dimension and immediately transforms the surrounding space.

At the boundary between libre figuration, instinctive drawing and plastic writing, this work testifies to a deeply personal approach, without easy decorative effect. A singular, inhabited piece that naturally finds its place in contemporary interiors sensitive to living and authentic art.

CRITIQUE:

"There is a great deal of poetry in this painting, as in all the artist’s works. They are inhabited by narrative codes and fantastical tales. In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childlike chant... But the most astonishing thing that manifests in these paintings is a contagious tenderness for the states of mind of the human being."
— Dr. Friedhelm Häring, museum director and art historian

"His writing through gesture and color describes a world open to new voices and experiments never attempted. His canvases and his works on paper demonstrate that painting remains a major expression of the contemporary scene."
— Laurent Puech, art historian and curator

BIOGRAPHY:

Ralf Altrieth (Heilbronn, 1966) is a Franco-German painter and musician recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border of figuration and abstraction. Trained in his teens with the painter Georg Schaible and then at the Academy of Fine Arts of Nürtingen in the late 1980s, his work is distinguished by rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. His works are today in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

The work will be shipped rolled in a solid tube to ensure secure transport.
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